Windows 10: RC4 is now deprecated in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11

Brink · Aug 8, 2016

In September 2015, Microsoft announced the end-of-support for the RC4 cipher in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 in 2016, as there is consensus across the industry that RC4 is no longer cryptographically secure.

Today, we are releasing KB3151631 with the August 9, 2016 cumulative updates for Windows and IE, which disables RC4 in Microsoft Edge (Windows 10) and IE11 (Windows 7 and newer). This matches the most recent versions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

What is RC4?

RC4 is a stream cipher that was first described in 1987, and has been widely supported across web browsers and online services. Modern attacks have demonstrated that RC4 can be broken within hours or days. The typical attacks on RC4 exploit biases in the RC4 keystream to recover repeatedly encrypted plaintexts. In February 2015, these new attacks prompted the Internet Engineering Task Force to prohibit the use of RC4 with TLS.

Previously, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 allowed RC4 during a fallback from TLS 1.2 or 1.1 to TLS 1.0. A fallback to TLS 1.0 with RC4 is most often the result of an innocent error, but this is indistinguishable from a man-in-the-middle attack. For this reason, RC4 is now entirely disabled by default for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer users on Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

How can I prepare?

We expect that most users will not notice this change. The percentage of insecure web services that support only RC4 is known to be small and shrinking.

If your web service relies on RC4, you will need to take action. Since 2013, Microsoft has recommended that customers enable TLS 1.2 in their services and remove support for RC4. For additional details, please see Security Advisory 2868725. For supported ciphers, and additional information on ciphers see: Cipher Suites in TLS/SSL (Schannel SSP).

– Brent Mills, Senior Program Manager, Windows Experience
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Source: RC4 is now deprecated in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 | Microsoft Edge Dev Blog

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VinLee#1 · Aug 8, 2016

Microsoft Edge

Confused, Microsoft Edge the same as internet explore 11. Trying to stream video show on cbc.ca and suggest to use Internet explorer 11. If explorer 11 is not part of Microsoft edge, can you have Microsoft edge and internet explorer 11 on the same
computer. I am using windows 10 on a dell all in one inspirion.

Thanks Kerry

Jamille Nar · Aug 8, 2016

RSS feeds not working in IE 11

Microsoft Edge is the default browser in Windows 10 operating system which is built-in.
While Internet Explorer 11 is the latest version of Internet Explorer that can be use from Windows 7 and up.

In this case, we suggest you to run the RSS links with Internet Explorer 11 since they are all working fine with it.
You may also refer to the links below to know more about Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11.

How Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
11 on Windows 10 work better together in the Enterprise.

Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 are even better together in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

Reasons to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11.

Browser: Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11.

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